MOUNT TAMALPAIS MILITARY ACADEMY
1921
Source: Marin Journal, Thursday, May 26, 1921, page 1.
Transcribed by: Cathy Gowdy

With every member of the class of thirteen planning to matriculate to a college or university, commencement exercises marking the thirty-first year of its existence, were held this morning at the Presbyterian church by Mount Tamalpais Military Academy.

The class is the second largest in the past years, and for the first time the musical numbers for the program were provided by the cadet orchestra and the cadet chorus.

Dr. H. C. Biddle, of Berkeley, delivered the commencement address at the exercises, which took place at 11 o’clock in the presence of a large student body and the parents and friends of th e graduating class members. Among the colleges and universities which will claim these young men as students are Cornell, West Point, Annapolis, Berkeley, Stanford, Oregon, Nevada and Davis.

The members of the class are:
George H. P. Alferitz, San Francisco; Joseph B. Andrade, Honolulu; A. Mera Ayau, Salvador; Carl S. Balch, Los Gatos; Plutarco E. Calles, Mexico City; Russell D. Chittenden, Fresno; Floyr (sic) R. Middagh, McGill, Nevada; Blixt Paxton, Santa Rosa; Ralph J. Simon, Mina, Nevada; Ruel R. Stickney, Mendocino; Edward A. Turpin, San Francisco; Aubrey B. Upward, Oakland, and Donald E. Ward, Pittsburg, California.